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...time travel. The show stars Jonathan LaPaglia, once a real-life emergency-room doctor who turned in his stethoscope for show biz, as Frank Parker, a former CIA renegade who's drafted into Operation Back-Step, a time-travel mission that goes back seven days to undo damage wrought by the attack, bring the President back to life and save the world. If that's too much, there's always another UPN series--The Love Boat...
...sits down to meals with us and talks to us in the lonely afternoons. Grasping this paradox, Oprah exhorts viewers to improve their lives and the world. She makes people care because she cares. That is Winfrey's genius, and will be her legacy, as the changes she has wrought in the talk show continue to permeate our culture and shape our lives...
Even as the students who had wrought the revolution were peacefully but firmly cleared from the Parliament building in the early hours of Saturday morning, few Indonesians thought Habibie would be more than a brief tenant of the presidential office. "I don't see Habibie enjoying meaningful political support from anyone," said Sarwono Kusumaatmadja, a former Minister of Environment. "In the economic crisis we lost trust. We have to regain trust, and Habibie is not the man for that." Indonesia's transition out of the Suharto era into a modern, free-market democracy has, with his departure, just barely begun...
...time spent in Beijing doing just that, Patrick Kavanagh's latest project, his first novel, is not so stylistically influenced as one might think. Rather than plunging into boggy streams of consciousness, Kavanagh emulates Joyce's focus on style more than his actual stylistic techniques, resulting in an ornately wrought work with a commanding sense of place and experience...
...What changes will be wrought in the world's smallest country by this rude intrusion of urban reality have yet to be seen. But two things are clear: First, the pontiff has lost a very close and trusted aide -- Commander Alois Estermann was with him during the 1981 assassination attempt. Second, this in no way affects the City's conduct of internal affairs: A Vatican magistrate will conduct the investigation without requesting help from Italian authorities, Navarro-Valls said. Some things never change...